3.2 Limitations without Current Solutions
Through our experiences implementing Nagios for monitoring enterprise networks, we
encountered many obstacles where none of existing add-ons or plugins can help. Most of the problems
are due to limitations of the native Nagios structure. We discuss some of these limitations in this
section. We find no previous articles discussing these points, so we hope to bring to attention these
issues to the Nagios community for further improvement to either the Nagios architecture itself or addons
that can address these problems.